What drug companies paid the psychiatrists near you
since 2013 a federal law has made drug and device companies report nearly every payment they make to a doctor, down to a sandwich. the file is public, but almost nobody opens it. type a ZIP code and this page asks the federal database for the psychiatrists in that area, what they were paid in 2024, by which companies, and for which products.
your ZIP goes from your browser to the federal Open Payments database and nowhere else. we do not store it or log it.
read this before you read a name
- these payments are legal. most doctors in most specialties have some.
- a payment is not proof that a doctor prescribes a drug, or that the drug is wrong for you. this page does not show prescribing, and we did not join it.
- most entries are small. a drug rep bringing lunch to a clinic is recorded against every doctor who ate.
- the specialty is the one written on the federal record, and it is sometimes wrong. we have seen a neurologist filed as a child psychiatrist. if a name or a product looks out of place, that is the likely reason.
- the address is the one on the payment record. a doctor who works near you may be filed under a hospital or a home somewhere else.
- never stop or change a medication because of something on this page. if a number here matters to you, it is a fair question to bring to the appointment.
why look at all
because the pattern is real even though no single payment proves anything. across the country a small share of psychiatrists receive most of the money, and the companies that pay the most are the ones with a newer branded drug to establish. we laid that out in how psychiatric drug marketing feeds itself and in what the best-paid psychiatrists publish. this page is the local version. it lets you see where the person across the desk sits in that picture, which is usually nowhere near the top.
a question you can ask
“i saw that you have done some work with the company that makes this. can you tell me why this one is right for me, and what the older or cheaper options are?” a good prescriber will have a good answer. most will respect the question.
how this works
your browser sends the ZIP code to the federal Open Payments database and asks for 2024 general payments to doctors whose listed specialty is psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, forensic psychiatry or psychosomatic medicine. we add up the rows per doctor, per company and per product. a small area answers in a few seconds. a dense one, such as central Manhattan, can take most of a minute. research payments and ownership stakes are separate federal files and are not included. the product shown is the first product the company named on the payment record, when it named one. the bands are ours: low is under $1,000, medium is $1,000 to $24,999, high is $25,000 or more.
questions people ask
Is it legal for a psychiatrist to take money from a drug company?
Yes. Meals, speaking fees, consulting fees, travel and research payments are legal. Federal law requires the companies to report them, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes the reports every year.
Does a payment mean my psychiatrist prescribes that company’s drug?
No. A payment record says that a company gave a doctor something of value. It does not say why a doctor chose any medication for any patient. This page does not show prescribing.
What do low, medium and high mean?
They are our bands, not a federal category. Low is under $1,000 in the year, medium is $1,000 to $24,999, and high is $25,000 or more. Under a thousand dollars is almost always meals. Twenty five thousand dollars and up is almost always paid speaking or consulting.
Why is my psychiatrist not listed?
Only doctors with at least one general payment in 2024 appear, and the file uses the address on the payment record, which can be a hospital, an old office or a home in another ZIP code. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants who prescribe psychiatric medication are in the federal file too, but this page searches psychiatrists only.
What if a record is wrong?
Doctors can review and dispute records with the company through the federal system before and after publication. Each name here links to the federal profile, which is the record of truth.
sources
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Open Payments: search tool and program description. https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. General Payment Data, Detailed Dataset, 2024 Reporting Year (the file this page queries). https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/dataset/e6b17c6a-2534-4207-a4a1-6746a14911ff
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Open Payments: natures of payment and the review and dispute process. https://www.cms.gov/priorities/key-initiatives/open-payments
- U.S. Census Bureau. 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area to County relationship file (used only to find the state for a ZIP code). https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt
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